[07/2024] NextG Lab has moved to the ECE department at NC State effective July 1, 2024.

[07/2024] Dr. Shah has been invited to serve on the TPC for IEEE INFOCOM 2025.

[07/2024] Dr. Shah has been invite to serve as the Demo/Poster co-chair for ACM WiNTECH 2024.

[06/2024] Congratulations to Ta-seen and Azuka for receiving the prestigious NSF student travel grant to attend IEEE DySPAN 2024. 

[06/2024] Our project "M2- NET: An Integrated Access and Backhaul Millimeter-wave Wireless Network for Campus Connectivity and Research" has been funded by the NSF. [Abstract]

[03/2024] Our paper "Milli-O-RAN: A Flexible, Reconfigurable O-RAN enabled mmWave Network Testbed" has been accepted to IEEE DySPAN Posters and Demos 2024. [Link] 

[03/2024] Dr. Shah has been invited to serve as the track chair for IEEE MILCOM 2024.

[02/2024] Azuka will be joining InterDigital Inc. for Summer internship 2024. Congratulations Azuka!

[02/2024] My third-year PhD student, Ta-seen Niloy has been awarded the "May La Due Bishop Book Fund" for academic excellence. Congratulations Ta-seen!

[02/2024] Dr. Shah has been invited to serve as the track chair for IEEE CCNC 2025.

[02/2024] Three papers (two on 12 GHz spectrum sharing [ASCENT] [CAT3S] and one on [O-RAN privacy]) are accepted to IEEE DySPAN 2024. 

[01/2024] Our project "A Holistic Cybersecurity Testing Framework for 5G Radio Access Networks" has been awarded by NTIA under Wireless Innovation Fund.

[01/2024] Dr. Shah has been invited to serve on the TPC for IEEE MASS 2024. 

[01/2024] Dr. Shah gave a talk entitled "Transforming Cellular Landscape: Open RAN, AI Convergence, and the Journey towards 6G" to ITU FG-AN Build-a-thon 2024 Workshop 5.0.

2023

[12/23] Our paper on "System-level Analysis of Adversarial Attacks and Defenses on Intelligence in O-RAN based Cellular Networks" has been accepted to ACM WiSec 2024. [Preprint]

[12/23] Our project "Fingerprinting Technology for Enhancing 5G/NextG O-RAN Supply Chain Risk Management" has been awarded by CCI Northern Virginia Node under the program "Research in Supply Chain Risk Management". 

[12/23] Dr. Shah invited to serve on the TPC for MobiHoc 2024.

[11/23] Our project "AI-Enabled Efficient Testing and Evaluation for RU, DU, and CU Components of 5G Radio Access Networks" has been awarded by NTIA under Wireless Innovation Fund.

[11/23] Our "FEMO-CLOUD" project has been recognized with honorable mention by O-RAN Alliance Next Generation Research Group (nGRG). 

[11/23] Our demo paper "Demonstration of Closed Loop AI-Driven RAN Controllers Using O-RAN SDR Testbed" was awarded the best demo paper at IEEE MILCOM 2023. [Paper]

[10/23] Our paper on "Adaptive RRI Selection Algorithms for Improved Cooperative Awareness in Decentralized NR-V2X" has been accepted to IEEE Access. 

[10/23] Our NIST project "Assisting Firefighters with 5G Drones" was featured in the GMU College of Engineering and Computing Annual Report 2023. [link]

[09/23] Open AI Cellular (OAIC) Platform version 2.0 is out! It has some new key capabilities (i) 5G support, (ii) O-RAN OSC Near-RT RIC and Non-RT RIC, (iii) Lightweight E2 Implementation, (iv) Sample ML-driven xApp, and (v) ZMQ with multiple UE support. If interested, check out our OAIC website for latest updates: www.openaicellular.org. 

[09/23] Our demo paper on "Demonstration of Closed Loop AI-Driven RAN Controllers Using O-RAN SDR Testbed" has been accepted to IEEE MILCOM Demos 2023. 

[09/23] Our paper on "Control Coordination in Inverter-based Microgrids using AoI-based 5G Schedulers" has been accepted to IET Smart Grid 2023. 

[09/23] Our NSF SaTC proposal on "RIS Security" was awarded by National Science Foundation (NSF).

[09/23] My REU student, Nathan Stephenson and I presented a comprehensive tutorial on Open AI Cellular (OAIC), a 4G/5G O-RAN platform, at IEEE PIMRC 2023, Toronto, Canada.

[08/23] Our proposal on "Millimeter Wave IoT networks" was awarded the "CCI Fellows" seed  grant. 

[08/23] Our Open AI Cellular (OAIC) platform (based on SDRs) has featured National Instruments Wireless Research Customer Stories. Link: https://www.ni.com/en/forms/wireless-research-customer-stories.html 

[08/23] BeamShaper paper has been accepted to IEEE MILCOM 2023. 

[08/23] One paper on O-RAN Security has been accepted to IEEE GLOBECOM 2023. 

[08/23] SenseORAN paper has been accepted to IEEE JSAC (SI on Open RAN).

[08/23]  Dr. Shah has been invited to serve on the TPC for IEEE ICC 2024. 

[07/23] NextG Lab@GMU is honored and excited to partner with Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) [Lead], Wireless@VT, and ODU on North American O-RAN Testing and Integration Center (OTIC) in Washington DC area.  GMU CEC news article: https://cec.gmu.edu/news/2023-07/george-mason-university-improving-next-gen-wireless-networks 

[07/23] Dr. Shah has been invited to serve as the Local Chair for IEEE DySPAN 2024.

[07/23] NextG Lab@GMU demonstrated a 5G positioning demo with sub-meter level accuracy at the 5x5 Public Safety Innovation Summit, San Diego, USA.

[07/23] Our paper on 12 GHz spectrum coexistence has been accepted to IEEE Wireless Communications Letters 2023. 

[04/23] Sarik Dhungel has been awarded with a travel grant to attend the AERPAW community workshop 2023. Congratulations Sarik!

[04/23] Ta-seen and Nathan presented posters on "12 GHz spectrum sharing" and "O-RAN based spectrum sharing framework" at 2nd CCI symposium, Richmond, VA.

[03/23] 12 GHz spectrum sharing paper accepted to IEEE Communications Magazine 2023. 

[03/23] Dr. Shah invited to serve on the TPC for WiseML 2023.

[03/23] Our CCRI proposal on "Space Networks" was awarded by National Science Foundation (NSF). [Abstract] 

[02/23] Dr. Shah joins the Editorial Board of Computer Networks.

[02/23] Interference classification paper accepted to IEEE INFOCOM workshop on Deep Learning for Wireless Communications, Sensing, and Security (DeepWireless). [Preprint]

[01/23] Three posters (on 12 GHz spectrum sharing, O-RAN, and AI beamforming)  accepted at CCI Symposium 2023. 

[01/23] Dr. Shah gave a talk on "5G-IPS: 5G-based Indoor Positioning System for Emergency Responders in GPS-limited Indoor Scenarios", ICDCN workshop on Emergency Response Technologies and Services (EmeRTeS) 2023.

2022

[11/22] Dr. Shah gave a talk on "Enabling 5G/NextG Network with Open RAN Architectures" at Research Scholar Day at National Institute of Technology (NIT) Durgapur, India. Link: https://youtu.be/qlxwO5M23Sg

[11/22] O-RAN testing framework paper accepted to IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, 2022.

[10/22] Our 5G positioning research was featured in Mason and other news portals.

Link: https://cec.gmu.edu/news/2022-10/firefighters-get-assist-5g-equipped-drones-developed-mason 

Link: https://dronelife.com/2022/10/25/drone-and-wearable-sensor-solution-locates-firefighters-in-a-burning-building/

[10/22] Dr. Shah invited to serve on the TPC for ACM MobiHoc 2023.

[08/22] DeepIA paper accepted to IEEE TNSE 2022.

[07/22] UAV backhauling paper accepted to IEEE TNSM 2022.

[06/22] UAV optimization paper accepted to IEEE IoT Journal 2021.

[06/22] Interference Suppression Survey paper accepted to IEEE Access.

[06/22] Our proposal on "5G-based Indoor Positioning System" was awarded by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). [More info here]

[06/22] Dr. Shah gave a talk on Open AI Cellular (OAIC) at IEEE NextG Summit 2022. [Slides][Youtube]

[05/22] Dr. Shah has been invited to serve on the TPC for IEEE MILCOM 2022.

[05/22] Dr. Shah has been invited to serve on the TPC for IEEE COMSNETS 2022.

[03/22] Dr. Shah has been invited to serve on the TPC for IEEE SECON 2022.

[03/22] O-RAN paper accepted to IEEE Network Magazine.

[01/22] Dr. Shah has been invited to serve on the TPC for IEEE ICNP 2022.

[01/22] Dr. Shah has been invited to serve as one of the publicity chairs  for IEEE SECON 2022.